Files stuck

[J Hill Designs]

wish i could help further...

 

[J Hill Designs]

um login on different user, browse to this user desktop folder, try deleting? maybe?

 

[qmr55]

thanks a ton you've been a big help.

and yes i tried that, no good!

 

[qmr55]

No other ideas anyone!?

 

[oldgoatroper]

I've had this problem before but I think it was with an .avi file -- same symptoms, though.

I've just searched for this myself, once again, and found nothing familiar, but I do remember that when this happened to me before, I did find the fix on Microsoft's site.

 

[CS-SignSupply]

right click and check properties of the file and see if you can change any of the file attributes... then try to delete???
(if it will allow)

 

[oldgoatroper]

So, here is something I just found...

So the easiest way i found to delete the file is to first find the DIR and filename of your avi file, then open a cmd window (Start>Run>CMD), after doing so hit CRTL+ALT+DEL kill End the process "explorer.exe" (dont worry we can bring it back up). Then go back to your cmd window. Navigate to the dir of your file, type DEL Filenamehere and hit enter , run explorer again (CRTL+ALT+DEL File>New Process>Explorer) and then the file is gone , that simple, No other programs required, worked for me hope it helps someone else
Thanx for your help everyone

maybe this might work for you...

 

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

Take one brick and chuck in at the tower......problem solved

 

[signswi]

Bootdeleter or killbox or write a batch script to delete after restart.

 

[qmr55]

Tried everything stated above, none worked!

Bootdeleter spit out a run time error and killbox wouldn't even open.

 

[qmr55]

Got killbox to finally run...

"This file could not be deleted"

lol the magic files...

 

[petesign]

Have you tried running chkdsk /r from a command prompt?

 

[CanuckSigns]

have you tried a hammer? a really big hammer.

 

[qmr55]

Have you tried running chkdsk /r from a command prompt?

Yes even tried running chkdsk on reboot.

No-go.

 

[SightLine]

More options....

http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/mi...ent/442526-cannot-delete-file-zero-bytes.html

Sevenforums will probably also have several things to try. I'd also try a full disk check where Windows has to reboot to do the full check. Usually these zero byto files give cannot find file errors. Yours is throwing corruption errors so it might just be some incorrectly flagged free space in the file tables or something.

 

[signswi]

FindLinks should tell you what's still referencing that file and PendMoves/MoveFile are more good options to delete on reboot.

 

[MatthewTimothy]

pmed

 

[qmr55]

More options....

http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/mi...ent/442526-cannot-delete-file-zero-bytes.html

Sevenforums will probably also have several things to try. I'd also try a full disk check where Windows has to reboot to do the full check. Usually these zero byto files give cannot find file errors. Yours is throwing corruption errors so it might just be some incorrectly flagged free space in the file tables or something.

It's not a zero byte file but I tried that anyway, cmd prompt gives me the error

"The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable"



Running out of ideas..

 

[MatthewTimothy]

throw this at it:

spybot:
here

CCLeaner:
here

 

[signswi]

Is your HD reporting any SMART errors?